About Tony Hughes

Tony has over 25 years’ experience in Cyber Security and Technology Risk, Governance and Compliance, holding positions such as Steering Committee member of the NI Cyber Cluster, Board Member and Trainer within ISACA Ireland, a member of the ISACA Emerging Trends Global Working Group, and a membership accreditor for the Chartered Institute for Information Security.

Holding many of the recognised qualifications in Information Security, his experience extends to cyber security strategy, incident response and standards driven approaches to security in a number of global clients in the public, private and academic sectors. Tony has written and contributed to a number of Government Cyber Security strategies including those for critical national services.

He is a tutor on the ISACA CISA and CRISC qualifications and lectures for Chartered Accountants Ireland on their Certificate in Technology Risk and Data Incident Management. Tony is currently one of the co-founders of an AI enabled Cyber Advisory Company, consulting with several global companies, and is the Senior IT Auditor within the Northern Ireland Audit Office.